Vice Presidential election: Naqvi’s title ultimate, or is it?

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The phrase from the corridors of energy seems to deliver excellent news for Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. He is claimed to be the front-runner amongst NDA’s possible Vice Presidential candidates. An official announcement is awaited, although the thrill is that if nothing turns unprecedented inside the BJP, Naqvi is nearly positive to be the NDA candidate.

Speculation is that Naqvi’s candidature would go away the Opposition with no choice however to help him. “Naqvi has always been showing his political maturity, impartially and uprightness throughout his tenure either as a Minister of Minority Affairs or as a deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha,” mentioned a BJP chief. 

After Naqvi, there isn’t any Muslim minister on the Centre and the BJP doesn’t have a Muslim MP amongst its practically 400 Members of Parliament. In the current Azamgarh and Rampur by Lok Sabha polls in UP, Naqvi performed an important function in making certain the victory of BJP candidates. 

But as they are saying, there’s many a slip between the cup and the lip. So, at the same time as Naqvi’s title is ‘almost final’, three new names as possible candidates have cropped up: Suresh Prabhu, Hardeep Puri and SS Ahluwalia. The three are along with 4 others — Arif Arif Khan, Najma Heptullah, Capt Amrinder Singh and Anandiben Patel.